Edius 4 Passed our post test with flying colors

[Ted Ramasola]

I just canned an 8 min 30 sec Tourism Promo for my government. Shot on JVC HD100, in 24P and 30P modes. Edited using HQ codec in a 23.976 720P timeline in Edius 4.

My comments. Edius has passed the torture test considering I was still running it in a Pentium 4 at 3.4ghz HT.
I finished the project using:
7 nested sequences.

on each sequence;
7 video trax
7 audio trax
7 title trax.

Minor composite work can now be done considering;
Edius can pan scan and scale using 3D p-in-p.
It can recognize alpha channels.
Though I still did the extensive ones in After effects.

Considerable color correction can be achieved with its, (in my opinion, misleadingly named) whitebalance filters.
I did the extreme color grading (ie, involving secondary color color correction) in color finesse in AE.

overall, I think, using HQ codec, Edius truly has matured and is quite stable in this version.

Its "consolidate project" feature is a professional touch that allowed me to archive the entire project for future revisions.

To those who are still doubtful which HD NLE path to migrate to, Edius 4 is worth it.
Ive used premiere for more than 10 years. Believe me, this is not an impulsive choice.

 

[storyp24]

I have come to the same decision concerning the move away from Adobe Premeire Pro 2 after 5 years. First I was very tired of Adobe Tech support. Each time I would call the hold time was 30 minutes if they answered the phone. Then there was no support for MXV files. All files had to converted using a third party.

With Edius the file conversion is seamless. The windows sizing is versatile. I am enjoying learning a new application.

 

[bhiga]

Excellent! Congratulations on your success!!

I agree with you that White Balance is misleading too. Once upon a time it was just white balance, but it is no longer.

Brandon

 

[Ted Ramasola]

In connection with my first post, from the nested sequences on the timeline I used procoder to export to WMV HD at 1280x720 24P. the 8 min video came out at around 250mb in wmv file. We then used a PC server and projected it onto a movie theater's wide screen using an in-focus DLP projector.

we compared it with an m2p file converted to a SD dvd.

I would say that 24p played well when the source was also 24p and the wmv hd generated by procoder express, built in edius 4 produced a clean well saturated image with rich blacks and controlled highlights.

The dvd file crumbled.

the wmv hd file as a delivery format for HD is, in my opinion a, a very good contender if only more 3rd party developers support this and not just sonic.